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Alan de Brauw

@adebrauw.bsky.social

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Economist- I study value chains, food systems and nutrition, migration, and to some extent agricultural finance. Work at IFPRI, posts do not reflect views of my employer.

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · 13d

Looks headed straight to Alabama to me

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · 14d

There has been growing emphasis on impact evaluations of programs and policies, but how do those impact evaluations actually lead to change? To answer this question, at @ifpri.org we recently commissioned an impact assessment of our impact evaluations- blog here www.ifpri.org/blog/ifpri-a...

IFPRI and causal impact evaluation: Evidence for real-life policies

A new report outlines diverse applications.

www.ifpri.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23d

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid

When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 27d

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · 28d

New blog on our research on overcoming obstacles to digitizing agricultural payments, from a midstream perspective www.ifpri.org/blog/overcom...

Overcoming obstacles and expanding opportunities for digital finance in the midstream of agrifood value chains

Innovations yield benefits across the food system.

www.ifpri.org

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Sep 10

You missed one! Akhter Ahmed, Shalini Roy and co-authors study how social protection affects intrahousehold food allocation in Bangladesh www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding social safety nets and intra-household food allocation: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Evidence shows that social protection can improve diets, but little is known about how impacts vary within households, the extent to which the modalit…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Depressed about the Bears loss last night? Or the slide into authoritarianism? Pick yourself up by reading our now published article in the Journal of Development Economics, on transfers and management advice in Malawi w @kateambler.bsky.social & Susie Godlonton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transfers, information and management advice: Direct effects and complementarities in Malawi

We examine a program designed to alleviate credit, information, and farm management constraints among smallholder cash crop farmers through transfers …

www.sciencedirect.com

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bear down!

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · Sep 9

Your daily reminder that US economic data is of extremely high quality even when compared to other advanced nations and the envy of the world

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 8

Exclusive: The White House is preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data, five weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the agency

White House Prepares Report Critical of Statistics Agency

The assessment would follow President Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

on.wsj.com

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Aug 27

🆕 Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, @jo-swinnen.bsky.social & Purnima Menon (@ifpri.org @cgiar.org) review the last 50 years of research on food policy – and what it means for the future of food (in)security: voxdev.org/topic/health...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 22

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

officialjackwhite
"Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung

Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on
anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's
blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about
Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled
his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress,
his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at
distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the
Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with
poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing
to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise
and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear"
that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults.
How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a
real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion,
trump is masquerading as a human being.

officialjackwhite
He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.
He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in
has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung
and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
"ample time on
at golf than
helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There
progress with him, only
smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your
concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any
money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot.
No intelligent person can defend this
low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka,
trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have
fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who
has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands,
this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and
voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman
leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain
who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's
owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he
was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a
cheap grifter and a thief.

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Aug 12

Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Aug 11

Indicative of a lot of the economy right now

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Jan 9

I'm trying to think what headline the legacy news could factually write to say that Trump and Musk's disseminated lies are making the fires worse.

@pbump.com said it in the way he does here.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Column | Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right

Anything to keep the realities of climate change from spreading.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Jan 15

here is an ungated version from 2022 www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Jan 23

Perfect feed from Jones, great shot from Agyemang #USMNT

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Jan 31

Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Mar 14

Good stuff

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Apr 1

☕ 📑 This week's selection of peer-reviewed journal articles co-authored by IFPRI researchers is now online on LinkedIn!

🔗 on.cgiar.org/3Rzqg4k

#publications #research #academicpublishing #foodsecurity #nutrition @cgiar.org

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Hesgeth used his personal phone to log into a 4th-tier sports betting site -- and to relay real-time information about U.S. airstrikes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities, Analysts Say

The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.

www.nytimes.com

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Apr 25

#NowReading Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS‐ISA and World Bank Enterprise Surveys

🖊️ By Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, and Cristhian Pulido.

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jaa2...

🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing

@cgiar.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · May 13

“Why can’t bribing the president be as straightforward as doing a dead drop of a briefcase in a parking garage like it used to be?” said Ben Tormos
theonion.com/man-can...

Man Can’t Believe He Has To Download Stupid App Just To Bribe President

MIAMI—Groaning as he scrolled through the terms and conditions and agreed to hold the platform harmless in the event of a financial loss, local man Ben Tormos told reporters Monday that he couldn’t believe he had to download a stupid app just to bribe the president. “Why can’t bribing the president be as straightforward as […]

theonion.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Jun 5

BREAKING: Jerry Reinsdorf reaches deal to sell Chicago White Sox to Justin Ishbia — but not until 2029 at the earliest

Jerry Reinsdorf reaches deal to sell Chicago White Sox to Justin Ishbia — but not until 2029 at the earliest

Jerry Reinsdorf will have the option to sell his controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox to Justin Ishbia from 2029 to 2033.

www.chicagotribune.com

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Jul 24

🆕interactive story on our #blog:

🌱 🔄Shaping strategies for Rwanda’s agricultural transformation: Successes from evidence-informed investments for agriculture-led development.

🖊️ By Maria DiGiovanni, James Warner, and Serge Mugabo.

🔗 www.ifpri.org/blog/shaping...

@cgiar.org

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Jul 23

Oh no! Will miss your columns in the Post and will definitely have to think hard about whether to continue to subscribe…

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Jul 14

New blog up at @ifpri.org with @jo-swinnen.bsky.social on conditions necessary to make agricultural value finance work in Low and Middle Income Countries- part of our new Finance Blog Series www.ifpri.org/blog/agrifoo...

Agrifood value chain finance can expand opportunities for smallholders

Building relationships between farmers, buyers, and lenders.

www.ifpri.org

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spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · Jul 4

Honestly, the NYT siding with Idi Amin and saying that Indian-Ugandans are not Africans is not something I saw coming.

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Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey @nytimes.com can you give me one good reason not to cancel my subscription after publishing this as a “news” article? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application

www.nytimes.com

Alan de Brauw @adebrauw.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems

Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

www.ifpri.org

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